The World Is My Country

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2015

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Pope Francis says we should not "make fun of faith," but we point out that blasphemy is a victimless crime. After honoring the birthdays of freethinking composers Mozart and Jerome Kern, we celebrate the birthday of founding patriot Thomas Paine, the deistic freethinker who wrote The Age of Reason, by listening to Dan Barker's tribute, "The World is My Country." Then we talk with Steven Hewett, a retired Army sergeant and Afghanistan veteran who successfully stopped religious symbols from being displayed at a Veterans Memorial in his North Carolina city.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:14.7	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:19.1	Imagine there's no heaven
0:21.6	It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky
0:41.0	Imagine all the people
0:47.2	living for today
0:53.2	Happy 32nd anniversary of Roe versus Wade.
0:59.3	That was on Thursday, January 22nd.
1:02.3	And Roe v. Wade has withstood a religious war by against women's reproductive rights.
1:09.4	And so congratulations.
1:11.2	And I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. And I'm Annie Larry Gailor.
1:12.8	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:16.3	This is the January 24th, 2015 broadcast of Free Thought Radio.
1:22.6	We broadcast from the Mike 92.1 progressive talk in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:28.1	We also stream from here at 11 o'clock a.m. Central on Saturdays through IHeart Radio.
1:34.6	You can also be listening to us broadcast in Grand Rapids, in central Texas, in central
1:41.0	Missouri, in central New York State, or up in Alberta, Canada, and other parts of the country.
1:47.0	Or you might be joining about 15,000 podcast listeners who listen religiously to Free Thought Radio.
1:55.3	You can find us through LibSYN, L-I-B-S-Y-N.com or some other podcast provider like iTunes.
2:02.3	The Freedom from Religion Foundation is the producer of this radio show, and we've been
2:07.6	producing since, what, 2006, Dan?
2:10.0	April 2006, yeah.
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